- I’m so glad the blog is getting over 100 unique readers per day. I was worried there for awhile. Nice RSS stats too. #
- The weather needs to pick cold and rainy or sunny and warm. Every day has been back and forth this week. #
- 38 more unique visitors and I’ll break the previous record. Nice to see that when I do have time to post, people read my ramblings. #
Archive: March, 2008
Recently I was made privy to the fact that at least JL Buford school is trying to raise money to buy “prizes” for a “raffle”. The trick in all of this is that the kids will be given “tickets” for the “raffle” based upon their participation in the ISAT.
I heard that Casey Jr. High is doing the same thing, but I didn’t see any letter from them.
So basically, funding is on the line thanks to “No Child Left Behind”, and the schools have resorted to bribing our children. This is truly a sad state of affairs for our school system.
How did we get here? I’m sure some will blame the NCLB act (teachers), and others will blame the educators (politicians). Personally, I would say it is a combination of those factors and us as parents.
We elected the politicians, we employ the teachers (indirectly), and we are the ultimate responsibility when it comes to the well-being and education of our kids. If little Jimmy isn’t keeping up with the rest of the class, help him. Talk to his teacher(s). Arrange tutoring. Whatever it takes!
Our children are our future. They will one day lead this country.
While I don’t approve of the outright bribery that local schools have resorted to, I do understand the pressure they are under to produce results or else. There are already no sports for our kids to play, what happens when more funding is cut?
PCBSD is a very slick interface. The install is pretty simple and straightforward. You pick your partition to install, set the bootloader choice, and any extra programs you may want.
To be honest, it was much simpler than I had been led to believe. Fortunately, my personal favorite desktop is the default (KDE).
Once I spent 3 hours researching how to set up my wireless card, after manually setting my wired network (DHCP did not work properly), it seems to be a decent desktop. There are programs that most anyone should need, if they are only surfing, sending email, and maybe some light office work.
I know I’m only at the beginning of my BSD road, but there are very few programs available in the repository (PBI downloads). Perhaps I’m missing some magical site or program, but there are only the most basic of downloads available. OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird are the best known programs available, and also are about all there is to get.
I’m going to keep hacking and thrashing my way through the growing pains. More information to come, but I advise everyone but the VERY adventurous to wait for BSD.
